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Quote for Tuesday, May 15, 2007
"Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
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Survival Priorities: Shelter is Key!
When you head to the hills for a weekend backpacking excursion, you are not typically thinking about what you would do if you were in the middle of nowhere and your pack accidentally sailed off a cliff. This happened to one poor student that took a survival course with an organization I used to work… Read more »
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Quote for Monday, May 14, 2007
"When a man throws and empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable for a fine of 50$. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded." -Pat Brown, Quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985
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Carbon Neutral Action Project, 1st Quarter 2006
This quarter’s CAP class’ action project focused on educating people about the practice of being “carbon neutral” and supporting renewable energy sources. In order to do this we studied conventional energy sources, alternatives to these, and what it means to be carbon neutral. In order to fully understand carbon neutrality you have to know how… Read more »
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Myrtle Spurge: A Menace to the Neighborhood!
Myrtle Spurge is a funky little plant that has stealthily crept its way into the many rock gardens and landscapes of Park Hill. While this plant is aesthetically pleasing, requires little water, and has a beautiful yellow glow when it flowers in the spring, this plant is a menace to our neighborhood! So what’s the… Read more »
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Quote for Monday, April 30, 2007
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." -Marshall McLuhan
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Journal Discussion for Friday, April 27, 2007
This week we chose our action project and began to contact members of the community who can provide us with guidance and support in our pursuit of a successful 4 Days in May. We’ve decided that Fire Mitigation would be an interesting topic to learn about and participate in. We’ve also decided that building a… Read more »
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Quote for Friday, April 27, 2007
"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."
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Quote for Thursday, April 26, 2007
"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope." -Wallace Stegner
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Quote for Tuesday, April 24, 2007
"Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -Paolo Freire
